Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
Intellectual Quotes
It’s the understanding of this intellectual idea that’s fundamental. John looks at the motorcycle and he sees steel in various shapes and has negative feelings about these steel shapes and turns off the whole thing. I look at the shapes of the steel now and I see ideas. He thinks I’m working on parts. I’m […]
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an “intellectual”, find out how he feels about astrology.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
American politics are deeply contradictory of course, but anti-intellectualism is the common strain. This includes a deep suspicion of anything that isn’t simple, fundamental, traditional, down-to-earth and “American” in the ideological sense, and can be exploited easily by demagogues and cynical politicians of the right.
An intellectual is a man who doesn’t know how to park a bike.
Intellectuals are like the mafia; they only kill their own.
To the man-in-the-street, who, I’m sorry to say, Is a keen observer of life, The word “Intellectual” suggests straight away A man who’s untrue to his wife.
The intellectuals’ chief cause of anguish are one another’s works.
